Iwanami Productions Movies

As her husband Eiichi becomes more entangled in his life as businessman, Naoko looks for ways to expand her own life even as her husband's life...

This engaging documentary focuses on a group of ‘studying mothers’ who decide to involve themselves in the civic politics of a provincial...

One day, Kandume's can boy, who happily lived with his friends in the kitchen, becomes an empty can and is discarded. Eventually, he has a dream...

A college graduate falls in love with a woman during a business trip in Hokkaido

Documentary short.

A young delinquent takes part in a robbery and is sentenced to a juvenile detention center, where he clashes with other youths and reflects on his...

Shot in a retirement home over a period of two years, this film raises the question of "how to take care". The director films with great tenderness,...

Haneda’s debut as full director, made after four years spent as an assistant, is set in a farming village in Shiga Prefecture (east of Kyoto)....

Commissioned by the Tokyo National Museum, this film, regarded in some quarters as the masterpiece of Haneda’s Iwanami period, is one of...

TV documentary about the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant and its safety concerns in 1976.

Haneda employed various cinematic and scientific technic to explore the world of cabbage butterfly, and the result was a completely new type of...